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ANTIQUER
Definition of ANTIQUER
noun
A person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an antique, either for decoration or to perpetrate a fraud.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From antique + -er.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ANTIQUER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 63, 22 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 89, 17 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 63, 22 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ANTIQUER starts with A and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AEINQRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ANTIQU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ANTIQUER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 63 - and most players walked straight past it.
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